Be Different

The Moral: Youwill never influence the world if you continue doing things the way they havealways been done. Be different. Create chaos. Leave an echo behind!

One of the greatest challenges in life is being yourself ina world that's trying to make you like everyone else. For research purpose,scientists placed 5 monkeys in a cage, with a ladder in the middle and bananason the top.  Every time a monkey went upthe ladder, the scientist soaked the rest of the monkeys with cold water. Aftera while, whenever a monkey attempted to climb the ladder, others would beat himup. After some time, no monkey dared go up the ladder regardless of thetemptation. Scientists then decided to replace one of the monkeys.

As expected, the new monkey instantly fell for thetemptation and was beaten up by the rest. After several beatings, this newmember learnt not to climb up the ladder even though he never learnt the realreason. Then, a second monkey was brought in and the same thing happened. Thefirst monkey participated in the beating of the second monkey.

The replacements continued, until only a group of 5 monkeyswere left in the cage. Even though the new group of monkeys never received acold shower, they continued to beat up any monkey that attempted to climb theladder. If you asked any of the new monkeys why the beatings took place, theanswer would probably be, “Well, how do I know. I guess that's how things aredone around here!"